1. Fairy Tales & Tall Tales

2. Early Asian Civilizations

3. The Ancient Greek Civilization

4. Greek Myths

5. The War of 1812

6. Cycles in Nature

7. Westward Expansion

8. Insects

9. The U.S. Civil War

10. The Human Body

11. Immigration

12. Fighting For A Cause

Unit 1: Writing About What We Know
Type: Personal Narratives / Informative Sentences
Focus: Sentence structure, basic paragraph writing, writing about familiar topics

Unit 2: How-To Writing Experts
Type: Procedural / How-To Writing
Focus: Writing step-by-step instructions clearly and in order

Unit 3: Informational Writing Explorers
Type: Informative Writing
Focus: Research and writing factual pieces based on topics or texts read

Unit 4: Telling a Story
Type: Narrative Writing
Focus: Story elements (beginning, middle, end), adding detail and dialogue

Unit 5: Writing to Share Our Opinions
Type: Opinion Writing
Focus: Stating an opinion, providing reasons, and writing persuasively

Unit 6: All About Books
Type: Informational Book Writing
Focus: Organizing information into sections, using nonfiction text features

1. Place Value Concepts through metric measurement and data

2. Addition and Subtraction within 200

3. Shapes and Time with Fraction concepts

4. Addition and Subtraction within 1,000

5. Money, Data, and Measurement

6. Multiplication and Division Foundations

1. Communities

2. Goods and Services

3. Rules/Laws

4. Native Americans/Pilgrims

5. Mapping Skills

6. Continents/Oceans

7. Landforms

1. Structure & Properties of Matter

2. Processes that shape the earth

3. Ecosystems

4. Engineering Design Process